From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story ... water from flowing underneath the Antarctic ice shelves using giant curtains or ...

The grounding line is the transition zone where a glacier or ice sheet ... “The Amery is unique among Antarctic ice shelves given its long interior extent—greater than 500 kilometers (300 miles)—and ...

The administrators of the course had eyes on the ground ... line,” as Worsley reported in a broadcast. By the fourth week of their journey, in mid-December, they had made it across the Ross Ice ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia, a crucial wildlife breeding ground in ... shallow continental shelf around South ...

This guest post is by: Dr Ella Gilbert, regional climate modeller at the British Antarctic Survey. “Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting ...

Why is a remote glacier in Antarctica that contains ... used satellite imagery to show the “grounding line” – the point at which the ice is no longer grounded on the continent and starts ...

The iceberg is spinning northwards from Antarctica towards South Georgia, a rugged British territory and wildlife haven, where it could ground and ... from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica ... line from where it is now to South Georgia" where waters quickly turn shallow and the current bends sharply. The iceberg could follow that ...

The iceberg is spinning northwards from Antarctica towards South Georgia, a rugged British territory and wildlife haven, where it could ground and smash into pieces ... It calved, or broke off, from ...